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Audubon photography awards are out. Kaninrail posted:
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DorianGravy posted:Does anyone have experience with the Tamron 18-400mm?
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Jul 4, 2018 02:36
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Get the 70-300 Tamron it's actually sharper.
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How does the thread feel about birds in captivity? The wife and I visited the safari park in San Diego today. I’ll post them if there’s any interest?
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Jul 4, 2018 23:14
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Zuul the Cat posted:How does the thread feel about birds in captivity? The wife and I visited the safari park in San Diego today. I’ll post them if there’s any interest? Yeah no worries, my first bunch of pictures in this thread were like that
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Jul 4, 2018 23:16
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With regards to possibly getting an easier shot? I couldn’t care less myself, although i do admire folks who put a ton of effort into finding quarry in the wild.
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Jul 4, 2018 23:17
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 Attitude by B. B., on Flickr Looking for a Chamber Door by B. B., on Flickr Handsome by B. B., on Flickr
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Jul 4, 2018 23:31
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torgeaux posted:
This is very cool.
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nmfree posted:Pretty much every sample picture I've seen from that lens has been at least a little soft, and very soft (especially in the corners) at the long end. If I were travelling and only wanted to bring one lens along, I'd probably pick one up; otherwise, I wouldn't bother. VelociBacon posted:Get the 70-300 Tamron it's actually sharper. Thanks for the input! I'll see if I can try out a couple lenses first. I like the one with the Bald Eagle claws. I usually enjoy detail photos of some aspect of a bird, but it's so hard to get close enough. torgeaux posted:
Ravens are wonderful. I agree that this one is really neat.
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DorianGravy posted:Thanks for the input! I'll see if I can try out a couple lenses first. I've got a lot of Tamron 70-300 VC USD shots of birds and other poo poo on my Flickr if you wanted to hop back a year or so. Mostly shot with a d750/d7k.
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Jul 5, 2018 09:42
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Top 100 here Nice penguin
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Jul 6, 2018 04:06
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Righto, here are some of the lovely birds I saw at the Wild Safari Park down in Escondido, CA. Lorikeets  My wife feeding one  A few crowned cranes  Scarlet Ibis - Native to Northern South America, Trinidad   Bald Eagle  and now the birds that I don't know!     I feel like this one is an Egyptian Pygmy Falcon.  
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Jul 6, 2018 16:45
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Zuul the Cat posted:
Bar-headed Goose (I think) Common Moorhen (likely a wild bird hanging out there) Some kind of pelican And the falcon looks like a male American Kestrel, our smallest native falcon.
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Jul 6, 2018 17:10
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Forgot I'd taken this last week Looks nice in color but I like the effect in B&W ISO 140 | 1/1250th/sec
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Jul 6, 2018 18:07
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 Green Woodpecker Even with a 300mm lens, they are flighty and tricky to get anywhere close to.
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Found a sleepy great horned owl early this morning, warming up in the morning sunshine. Found it because crows were mobbing it--I snapped a bunch of photos and after a few minutes the owl got sick of the crows and flew deeper into the woods, where they chased it. 
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Jul 9, 2018 07:50
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Those are some scary talons.
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Jul 9, 2018 10:04
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Great Horned Owls are top predators of other top predators. They account for a solid chunk of the mortality of ravens, hawks, and juvenile birds of all sizes and ecological niches, including other owls. I've found them before from watching corvids lose their poo poo in a tall tree. For whatever reason, only some birds are smart enough / willing to join in on mobbing an owl - the pair of black-billed magpies that started screaming at a spruce tree soon turned into at least 20 before the owl broke cover (pursued by the mob), but on a different occassion all the other robins ignored the one that was goading a young Great Horned in a poplar. Watch the crows. When they get antsy, there's usually a good reason.
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ExecuDork posted:Watch the crows. When they get antsy, there's usually a good reason. At maximum zoom on my 200-500mm he filled the entire frame, so most of the best photos are ~400-450mm so that there's a bit more of the surroundings in the photo.
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Jul 9, 2018 20:38
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Last time I saw a robin fussing at an owl, the owl had found it's nest and was grabbing chicks out of the nest one-by-one and taking them to it's fat baby while the robins looked on helplessly. owl_eating_robin 220 on Flickr
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Jul 9, 2018 20:49
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Incredibly hosed up. Reminds me of some giant koi trying to eat ducklings whole and the mother playing whack-a-mole with her beak.
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Jul 9, 2018 22:15
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Decided to get off my butt in this hot weather and practice at a local park, seems the heron is different to the one I saw in 2016, but there's still only the one.  Still, a very patient lad/lass and happily posed all day, the moorhens were pretty co-operative too just a shame I blew the highlights a bit.      
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So. loving. Close. Almost a great shot by B. B., on Flickr Feeding by B. B., on Flickr
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Jul 21, 2018 03:41
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You may not have captured exactly what you wanted but it’s still a very cool shot.
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Jul 21, 2018 04:45
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 Red Throat by B. B., on FlickrDude is proud as gently caress.  Throat by B. B., on Flickr
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Love the low angle on this I like the b&w choice on this one. torgeaux posted:So. loving. Close. Still pretty rad- so hard to catch a hummingbird fight! torgeaux posted:
How close were you? drat Fart Amplifier posted:
No new pictures to share, but I do have some photo news. I finally printed up a bunch of note cards and sold them at a local festival today. It actually went really well, especially for a first run. Sold a bunch of cards, talked to a ton of folks. Probably 75% of my cards on display were from the local park which was within sight of my table, so it was pretty cool to be able to bond with folks who'd spent a lot of time there and also amaze the people who didn't know all that cool stuff that lived there.
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Thanks! Going through my backlog, couple of tree sparrows - they were everywhere and very adorable.  
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Jul 23, 2018 17:20
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 July 23rd Our garden robin. Raised three broods this year. The last of the fledglings have flown, now the moult.
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Jul 23, 2018 22:53
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Ok, I think I may have hit my personal best tonight. Personal Best by B. B., on Flickr Shake It Off by B. B., on Flickr The Kiss by B. B., on Flickr Prelude to the Kiss by B. B., on Flickr
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Jul 24, 2018 03:06
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Oh, holy hell. Outstanding.
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Jul 24, 2018 03:54
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torgeaux posted:Personal Best by B. B., on Flickr  hell yes
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torgeaux posted:Ok, I think I may have hit my personal best tonight. President Beep posted:Oh, holy hell. Outstanding. Megabound posted:Goddamn Atlatl posted:
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Jul 24, 2018 17:00
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yeah that is quite the framing. Amazing shot
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drat.
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Jul 24, 2018 20:45
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That is superb, I really like the poses in those, torgeaux. Killdeer 
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there is a mama duck in minnesota that is caring for 76 babbys  https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/24/science/merganser-ducklings-photo.html more pics in this Twitter thing https://twitter.com/i/events/1022139322181378048
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Pretty much all birding comes down to knowing time and place. With home feeders, the place is easy, and it's really a matter of them adjusting to you on hummingbirds. These little bastards are so used to me now, they're giving me attitude. What are YOU looking at by B. B., on Flickr
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